Recent content by sedrosken

The ViRGE is notoriously slower than software rendering, but the Savage is merely "normally" slow in the way that most single-pipe single-TMU designs just... are. Anything using multitexturing tanks the framerate, you're pretty much capped at 640x480 if you want a playable framerate, etc etc...

I've decided the T20 will run Windows ME dual-booted with NetBSD i386 latest. If I'm gonna make a stupid waste of my time, I'm going to make THE stupid waste of my time. ME should be a supported platform for this, and there is some logic to it: - The sound is horrible in DOS, so I don't need to...

Momentum. It's still there because momentum. People don't really change thought patterns, it's why Microsoft is still so dominant in the first place. Your first option a normal person will think of when wanting an alternative is going to be a Mac or an iPad with a keyboard case, and the first...

The T23 wasn't available until mid-2001, and its max was 1GB. (The T20 through T22 had a max of 512MB.) 1GB or even 512MB was still gobs and heaps and tons of RAM in 2000-2001, so you very likely still had plenty of headroom with that. I would have killed for any kind of portable computing...

Considering the limited video chip and the fact that the fastest chip I'm likely to be able to run is a 1.0GHz (anything faster is a Tualatin and not directly compatible), I'm not too fussed. For what I'm going to do with it, 700MHz is plenty, given the rest of the hardware kneecapping it. I...

Friend of mine is ditching a ton of his e-waste, so now it gets to be my e-waste. At least his more or less works, and what may or may not will at least be useful for parts, unlike a lot of the junk that litters my home office that I haven't gotten around yet to recycling. Laptops. I'm getting...

In retro build news, my Pentium MMX is finally stable. Biostar MB-8500TTD paired with the custom J.3 patch to fix several bugs with the IDE controller -- and an EEPROM with an actually writable config memory portion -- has this thing rock solid, even at a 75MHz bus. 83 can boot into Windows and...

Sure starting to wish I had the hybrid. 😅

As much as I view AI as a copyright infringement machine, I do have Claude Pro (at least for the rest of the month, unsure if I'll renew) and I have used it for automating some stuff like writing out SQL to make new items on a batch basis (when I need lots of a similar thing, I'll make the first...

I used to use mRemoteNG for that, and it's a native Windows application. I'm not actually sure if that's still developed. On Linux I tend to gravitate toward Remmina -- it's maybe a little less fancy, but it works fine. It's good that something exists that's cross-platform and runs in a browser...

My 2018 RAV4 manages about 26mpg combined typically with my Florida Driving(tm). If I do a lot of highway running or absolutely utterly baby it to hypermile I can eke out about 30-33mpg, which for a car of that size with nothing special in the way of engineering is pretty okay. Mine is the last...

After using a 27 inch 1080p monitor (typically I top out at 22" for 1080p displays) and really enjoying it, I've come to the unfortunate conclusion that my vision must be degrading more quickly than I thought.

Think I ended up using a pair of Inspur cards using an Intel X540T2 or whatever. The stock cooling was pathetic so I slapped a fan meant for a 3D printer on them. Now I can't recall if the performance I got was less than expected due to talking to a 3-HDD RAID and it just couldn't saturate it...

Yeah, I myself run a Surface Laptop Go 2 as my personal portable computing device of choice -- much less fancy specs, only an 1135g7/16/512 and the cooling won't even let it scale the same as my old Elitebook 840G8 that had the same CPU -- but it has a 1536x1024 3:2 display and it is amazing to...

Got the dock in yesterday, although my MST DisplayPort hub isn't in just yet. I just about used up every single USB port on the damn thing getting my DAC/amp and XLR interface hooked up, but in actual use, it's definitely a bit speedier than the 3770K. Obviously for games the sheer power on tap...